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Van Gogh Flowers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEf7Y8UtEsM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TakepdNgFHQ&t=119s

key concepts
intro to painting, process, composition, art history

objectives
a) proceed through a set of instructions to arrive at a finished picture. see above
b) sw experience working from observation
c) sw learn about the practice of painting, mixing and brushwork
procedure
a) intro to Van Gogh
b) intro to sunflower painting
c) begin process
d) table top design, somewhere to set vase
e) vase, cut from template or design your own
f) placement in middle of foreground, table top design
g) decorate vase, Van Gogh two colors and a line with signature
h) medallions ctr of sunflowers, 3 or 5 rule of opposites
i) place and glue, observe sunflowers on desk
j) paint stems, using green tempera paint a line from vase to medallion of sunflower use round brish
k) add a leave or two, using stem from stem and two curved lines . fill in leaf with strokes of green paint
2nd session
l) sunflower peddles, mixing white and yellow, mark N<E<S & W, this creates four spots, fill in between to obtain symmetry.
m) done

materials
tempera-white green yellow, 11x 16 paper, colored? cray pas, brushes, #4round for stems, #6 flat or filbert for peddles

artist
Vincent Van Gogh

Assessment/eval
a) TIO
b) observation, did they look, did I require them too
c) step by step instructions, why would some students get so confused?
d) final painting> strokes scumbling, proper brush work practiced?


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below Gauguin painted Van Gogh from his Imagination working on his Sunflowers. Gauguin thought they were masterpieces.

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